Are Cameras The New Gus?

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g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
edited June 2010 in A Moving Train
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Are Cameras The New Guns
A recent arrest in Maryland is both typical and disturbing.

On March 5, 24-year-old Anthony John Graber III's motorcycle was pulled over for speeding. He is currently facing criminal charges for a video he recorded on his helmet-mounted camera during the traffic stop.

The case is disturbing because:

1) Graber was not arrested immediately. Ten days after the encounter, he posted some of he material to YouTube, and it embarrassed Trooper J. D. Uhler. The trooper, who was in plainclothes and an unmarked car, jumped out waving a gun and screaming. Only later did Uhler identify himself as a police officer. When the YouTube video was discovered the police got a warrant against Graber, searched his parents' house (where he presumably lives), seized equipment, and charged him with a violation of wiretapping law.

2) Baltimore criminal defense attorney Steven D. Silverman said he had never heard of the Maryland wiretap law being used in this manner. In other words, Maryland has joined the expanding trend of criminalizing the act of recording police abuse. Silverman surmises, "It's more [about] ‘contempt of cop' than the violation of the wiretapping law."

3) Police spokesman Gregory M. Shipley is defending the pursuit of charges against Graber, denying that it is "some capricious retribution" and citing as justification the particularly egregious nature of Graber's traffic offenses. Oddly, however, the offenses were not so egregious as to cause his arrest before the video appeared.

Almost without exception, police officials have staunchly supported the arresting officers. This argues strongly against the idea that some rogue officers are overreacting or that a few cops have something to hide. "Arrest those who record the police" appears to be official policy, and it's backed by the courts.

This is scary stuff how can citizen's protect themselves when SOME police officers lie or just abuse the law like how some do?

Peace
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  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    This really is some scary stuff! But who's Gus? ;)
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    Without the videotaping of police incidents how would some people be able to exonerate themselves from police brutality. For example this situation that happened to a student after a Duke-Maryland basketball game where a student was accused and written up report by police that HE attacked a policeman's horse......did the student do so?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GRwgIKVN8

    peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    :( who watch the watchman...
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Why not (V) (°,,,,°) (V) ?
  • dimitrispearljam
    dimitrispearljam Posts: 139,725
    arq wrote:
    :( who watch the watchman...
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
    "..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
    “..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
  • Pepe Silvia
    Pepe Silvia Posts: 3,758
    what else is scary is this part of the article
    In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.

    Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.
    don't compete; coexist

    what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?

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    i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    Pepe Silvia wrote:
    what else is scary is this part of the article
    In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer.

    Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists.

    WTFx10000
    "The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it"
    Neil deGrasse Tyson

    Why not (V) (°,,,,°) (V) ?
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    g under p wrote:
    Without the videotaping of police incidents how would some people be able to exonerate themselves from police brutality. For example this situation that happened to a student after a Duke-Maryland basketball game where a student was accused and written up report by police that HE attacked a policeman's horse......did the student do so?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8GRwgIKVN8

    peace

    More follow up on the student/police incident...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1c9OCaa9rQ&feature=fvw

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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